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A failure to meet an obligation under the terms of a contract.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: law
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a breach of a legal duty; failure to do something that is required in a contract
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: breach
Narrower terms: anticipatory breach, constructive breach, breach of the covenant of warranty, breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of warranty, material breach, partial breach
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
خرق العقد
(ḵarq al-ʕaqd)
— failure to perform
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Breton:
torridigezh kevrat
— failure to perform
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Bulgarian:
нарушение на договор
(narušenie na dogovor)
— failure to perform
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Bulgarian:
неизпълнение на договор
(neizpǎlnenie na dogovor)
— failure to perform
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Chinese Mandarin:
違約 /违约
(wéiyuē)
— failure to perform
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Cornish:
torrva ambos
— failure to perform
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Danish:
kontraktbrud
— failure to perform
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Dutch:
contractbreuk
— failure to perform
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Dutch:
wanprestatie
— failure to perform
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Estonian:
lepingu murdmine
— failure to perform
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Finnish:
sopimusrikkomus
— failure to perform
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French:
rupture de contrat
— failure to perform
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French:
inexécution contractuelle
— failure to perform
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German:
Vertragsverletzung
— failure to perform
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German:
Vertragsbruch
— failure to perform
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Hungarian:
szerződésszegés
— failure to perform
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Italian:
violazione di contratto
— failure to perform
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Italian:
inadempienza contrattuale
— failure to perform
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Japanese:
違約
(iyaku)
— failure to perform
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Korean:
계약위반
(gyeyakwiban)
— failure to perform
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Norwegian Bokmål:
kontraktsbrudd
— failure to perform
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Polish:
naruszenie umowy
— failure to perform
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Portuguese:
inadimplência
— failure to perform
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Portuguese:
inadimplemento
— failure to perform
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Portuguese:
incumprimento
— failure to perform
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Romansh:
violaziun dal contract
— failure to perform
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Russian:
наруше́ние контра́кта
(narušénije kontrákta)
— failure to perform
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Russian:
наруше́ние догово́ра
(narušénije dogovóra)
— failure to perform
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Spanish:
incumplimiento de contrato
— failure to perform
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Swahili:
uvunjaji wa mkataba
— failure to perform
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Swedish:
avtalsbrott
— failure to perform
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Tagalog:
talusira sa kasunduan
— failure to perform
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Welsh:
torcontract
— failure to perform
